Posted
by
sengan
on Friday November 20, 1998 @01:21PM
from the monopoly-or-what? dept.

In yet another amazing disclosure, the DOJ case has brought
to light that Microsoft considered buying AMD or Cyrix back
in December 1997 at a time when computer manufacturers were
complaining that Microsoft's OS costs were too high. The memo
also states that Microsoft has been increasing the price of
their software while hardware prices continued to tumble.
Interestingly buying the rival chipmakers was based on fears
that Intel was about to enter the OS business.
This memo is the same as the memo which suggested an annual
OS fee. Thanks to
Crypt242 for the link.